Embodying Resilience October 10, 17, 24, 31 & November 7, 2019

The Color-Line Ballet Dancers and Race Wednesday, April 18th

Inaugural Workshop and Performances Series January 12-15, 2018

Friday, January 12 – Student Center Doheny Beach Room A & B

1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | The Impact of Africa’s Fractal Codes: Connections and Linkages presentations by Daniel Avorgbedor, PhD University of Ghana; Sola Adeyemi, PhD, Goldsmith’s College & Aaron Trammell, PhD, UCI. Roundtable discussion with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Sheron Wray, PhD.

Location: Doheny Beach Room A & B [Open]

5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. | Opening, Undoing Racism Workshop® hosted by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) [Full]

Saturday, January 13 – Student Center Doheny Beach Room A & B

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Undoing Racism Workshop hosted by PISAB [Full]

Sunday, January 14 – Student Center Doheny Beach Room A & B

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Undoing Racism Workshop hosted by PISAB [Full]

Monday, January 15 – Colloquium Room, Contemporary Arts Center Plaza

11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Building AICRES of Resilience featuring presenters: Dele Olajide, MD. PhD. FRCPsych. FRSA; Magda El Zarki, PhD and Pat Seed PhD and Roundtable discussion with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Sheron Wray, PhD and the public. [open to public-brown bag lunch]

3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Stepping in the Future by Dr. Colon (PISAB), co-hosted by the Black Student Union

6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Dance performance presented by MB Dance in collaboration with Illuminations and Aicre [open to public]

(Re)Source, an In-Progress Investigation by MBDance

Monday, January 15, 2018 at 6pm-8pm

Claire Trevor School of the Arts | William Gillespie Studios-DS1100

Maria Bauman is a dance artist who mines her identities as an artist, a community organizer, and as a Black, queer, not-quite-southern-belle-now-living-in-New-York to create bold and honest dances. In this session, she is sharing her newest work-in-progress and hosting a discussion afterward with students and faculty members. People interested in community organizing, art, cultural organizing, race, gender, and discourse are encouraged to attend!

Within the U.S. climate of upheaval, fear, and bullying at home and abroad, Bauman is focusing on what it takes to get by, get over, survive, and thrive. Improvisation, lineage, resilience: (re)Source is a danced solo exploration of how and when we call on these assets and when we reject them entirely. As research for the piece, Bauman has been studying cartography, marronage, and rituals for sustainability. Conceived of and embodied by Maria Bauman (www.mbdance.net), with sound composition by Shea Rose (www.shearose.com), the dance also includes a unique visual landscape co-created by Maria Bauman and by each set of audience members, with advising by Nontsikelelo Mutiti (www.nontsikelelomutiti.com). To register click here.

Event Sponsors:

Office of Inclusive Excellence

Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity

School of Social Ecology

Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Claire Trevor School of the Arts

School of Law

School of the Social Sciences

Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences

School of Physical Sciences

Humanities Commons

University Advancement

Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning

Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs

Department of Dance

Department of Drama

Department of Gender and Sexuality

Department of Informatics

Department of Psychology and Social Behavior

Campus Climate

African American Student Experience

UCI Illuminations Chancellor’s Arts and Culture Initiative

School of Humanities

Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies

Center for Black Cultures, Resources & Research

Africana Institute for Creativity, Recognition and Elevation

JazzXchange